Edited by
BEVERLY A. TEICHER

2006

As genomic techniques allow us a closer and closer look at malignant disease, the ability of cells to respond to chemical and biological insults with remarkable flexibility of phenotype makes it clear that, despite some small successes, there is much to be done to control and eliminate malignant disease. The recruitment of a wide variety of host ‘normal’ cells into the malignant disease process is critical to disease progression.